The People's Monarchist Party (Partito Monarchico Popolare) was an Italian conservative party founded in 1954 by a split from the National Monarchist Party. It was led by Achille Lauro

Achille Lauro

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, long-time Mayor of Naples

Naples

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In 1959, after the good result in the 1958 general election

Italian general election, 1958

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 (2.6%, while the rival PNM scored only 2.2%), the party re-joined the National Monarchist Party to form the Italian Democratic Party, latterly named Italian Democratic Party of Monarchist Unity

Italian Democratic Party of Monarchist Unity

Since 1961 the Italian Democratic Party of Monarchist Unity was the continuation of the Italian Democratic Party , a monarchist party founded in 1959 by the union of the People's Monarchist Party and the National Monarchist Party.The new party, like its predecessors, was hampered by a...

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